Practical Clinical Topics, Digging Deeper Into COVID-19, Social Determinants of Health, and Equity

Authors

Marjorie A. Bowman, Wright State UniversityFollow
Dean A. Seehusen
Christy J.W. Ledford

Document Type

Editorial

Publication Date

10-1-2021

Identifier/URL

41091793 (Pure); 34535511 (PubMed)

Abstract

As a discipline, we continue to learn lessons from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)—lessons for practice, systems, and patient care. This issue also includes articles focused on 2 other topics that attract increasing attention by family physicians. First, articles describe how the social determinants of health impact health and how family physicians can overcome those obstacles with their patients. Patients want assistance from health systems for 1 specific need related to social determinants of their health. Second, we see increasing evidence about opioid prescriptions in primary care. Multiple clinical articles are pertinent to family medicine, such as different implications of an elevated sedimentation rate compared with C-reactive protein, practice facilitation, adolescent vaccination, family physician accuracy with potentially malignant skin lesions, and more.

Comments

Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Board of Family Medicine. All rights reserved.

Repository Citation

Bowman, M. A., Seehusen, D. A., & Ledford, C. J. (2021). Practical Clinical Topics, Digging Deeper Into COVID-19, Social Determinants of Health, and Equity. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 34 (5), 883-885.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/familymed/264

DOI

10.3122/jabfm.2021.05.210303